Post by noah on Dec 26, 2009 18:10:22 GMT 10
noah james lumiere
kind-hearted, disobedient, loyal
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Noah James Lumiere
Nickname(s): Lumi
Disney Character: Lumiere from Beauty and the Beast
Age: 22
Birthdate: December 14th
Birthplace: Paris, France
Orientation: Heterosexual
Member group: Confidant.
Ability: Noah has the ability to sense lust, generally in those who have strong desires. It tends to be a white hot heat coming from the person who generates the feelings, usually when facing/discussing/thinking of the other party.
Drawback: Often times the person who the lust is directed at is misinterpreted. He can't sense it for himself (meaning anyone who has the feeling toward him) and if the feeling in the other person is unsure or not-so-strong he will often miss it completely or mistake it for love.
Education: Noah has graduated high school and has some higher education but in pursuit of his own happiness decided against finishing university. He is not in school and has no intention to be.
Occupation: Kitchen hand.
There was never really an awkward time in Noah Lumiere’s life. Generally, most kids have a period of chubby little kid cuteness and then they grow into an awkward adolescence and sort it all out by the time they’re old enough for it not to matter anymore. Sure, every kid has a thing or two they don’t like about themselves, but Noah has really come to peace with the few traits he doesn’t favor. Generally, he is a very handsome boy. He has brown hair, a gift from his father, and pretty blue eyes with long eyelashes - definitely from his mother. Never shy, Noah displays his gorgeous smile with pride. And although his eyebrows tend to get thick sometimes and his nose is slightly off set, and looks a bit crooked when he’s looked at dead on, he is overall a good looking person.
As far as it goes for fashion, the boy is well dressed. There isn’t one particular style or another he takes to. It seems that whatever looks best or is most comfortable tends to find it’s way into his closet. At the same time, he owns quite a few suits, mostly due to the fact that he had to be on his mother’s heels growing up, attending events with her and often times appearing as her plus one. He didn’t hate them or love them, either way, he just knew that they made him look sophisticated and proper, which was nothing but a good thing, right?
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Feature: "I quite like the color of my eyes. People tell me they look just like my mom's."
Worst Feature: "My nose is a bit crooked, but I don't personally mind. I can't really think of anything else."
Something Memorable: Aside from being generally attractive, there is no one trait that stands out physically. Noah's personality is a big part of who he is, however.
KIND-HEARTED - Compassionate and helpful, Noah could never turn a deaf ear on someone who needed him. Taught from a young age that he should treat each and every person as his own personal guest, the boy tends to put others in front of himself. Definitely part of his charm, Noah is kind and loving, especially to those who he considers friends and other such people who deserve the treatment. His actions are commonly upright and benevolent and Noah wouldn’t have it any other way. He’s quite honestly taken the idea of doing unto others as you would want them to do unto you to heart.
DISOBEDIENT - Although he doesn’t always neglect and refuse to obey, Noah has a tendency to do what he wants versus what he’s told. With no real clue where his lack of behavioral skills in this area came from, his parents have been puzzled with how he acts sometimes for a long time now. Generally because he is a kind person and usually behaves so well, when the times come that he schemes and disobeys it seems a little out there, where other times it seems the appropriate response for whatever he’s faced with. He doesn’t do it to get in trouble as much as he did it to spice things up.
LOYAL - Some people define loyalty as being steadfast in allegiance, or faithfulness to a person, ideal, cause or duty. Noah? Well, Noah defines it as his job. His friends have proved themselves, for what reason should he be disloyal to them? His family has given him life and love and a place to live. Why should he be anything less than completely dependable? Believing it’s his duty, Noah would stand by any friend or family member that called for his assistance. Often times, he’ll defend said friend or family member blindly and refuse to believe he’s wrong. But loyalty isn’t always about defending someone. It’s about standing beside someone through the thick and through the thin. Noah usually never fails to do just that.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Likes:
• Romance
• French Cuisine
• Lovely Ladies
• Friends
• Classic Literature
• Writing
• La Belle et la Bête
• Jelly Beans
• Paris
• Parties
• New York
• Movies
Dislikes:
• Having Friends Angry With Him
• Large Messes
• Writer’s Block
• When Things Are Too Serious
• Unfortunate Events
• Inhospitable People
• When The Lights Go Out
• Being Told No
• Disloyalty
• Arguements
• Scalding Milk
• Dishes
Positive Traits:
• FLIRTATIOUS - Full of playful allure, Noah cannot help himself when it comes to ladies. No skeeze, but rather quite the gentleman, Noah has found that he has quite the knack when it comes to wooing the female species. Why they take to him, he’s not sure, but apparently he knows the right way to speak to girls. That’s only a bad thing sometimes, right?
• INTELLIGENT - Sound judgment and rationality are traits Mr. Lumiere flaunts quite fondly. Well educated with only the finest of private schools and tutors that Paris could offer, Noah is articulate and a far cry from being mentally obtuse. Intelligence is also a device Noah uses to make sure he’s doing right rather than wrong. He tries not to flaunt it, but will often correct mistakes.
• CAREFREE - The definition of carefree is listed as “free of worries and responsibilities” and although finds that he does sometimes have worries and responsibilities, overall, he’s quite content with his blithesome air. It truly makes Noah a delightful person to be around, especially since he will quite often assure those around him that no matter the situation everything is going to be okay.
Negative Traits:
• FLIRTATIOUS - Although sometimes it’s a good thing, often Noah can flirt his way into disaster. There have been times when the boy has dug himself a hole by flirting without really realizing what he was doing. Perhaps because he doesn’t know how to put a cap on it, who really knows? The worst thing, however, is flirting with someone when you’re already dating someone else. Noah would know from experience.
• ALL-KNOWING - With his intelligence often comes a horrible sense of total knowledge. Although he’s quite aware that he’s not the smartest person alive, Noah can’t really help it when sometimes he comes off as an arrogant ass. He doesn’t mean to, it just seems to be how some people take him when he can’t help himself from correcting others, especially if he does so impolitely. It’s a rather bad habit.
• EXCESSIVE - Often times when Noah Lumiere does things for people he goes a bit overboard. His tendency to make his gestures overblown isn’t always looked at in a good way by those receiving. Things tend to go to waist when Noah is in charge. He always expects more people than there are those willing to receive. Sometimes he just goes too heavy, too big, too much. At least he’s never under prepared!
Most intriguing quirk(s): Often times, Noah will mix his French and English together. Usually he's understandable, but sometimes he'll just mumble out a bunch of incoherent words.
Greatest Ambition: To live the greatest love story of all time.
Greatest Fear: To lose all of those he loves, and although he doesn't believe he will, who said fears weren't irrational?
Annette Baudin was France’s most beloved child star. Kept from all the troubles that most child stars face, Annette acted solely in movies that her mother approved of and even took a good solid break to finish schooling. Upon her return to the acting world, the family saw it prudent that she finally indulged in some of her earnings. As soon as she was old enough she was given a chance to branch out with her acting, blessed with her own apartment in the most lovely of spots in Paris. At this same, Remus Lumiere was landing a job as a kitchen aid for the Baudin family. After a year working for the Baudin’s chef, Remus got a chance to meet Annette one evening when the Baudin family had one of their many dinner parties and Annette had stolen away from her family to catch some fresh air (rather, avoid constant questions about her career and current projects).
From that point on, Annette and Remus’ romance blossomed in the eye of the public, something unavoidable with Annette Baudin. They were known as Beauty and the Butler, but the title never bothered either party. A year after the couple was officially married, Annette announced to her parents at a lovely quiet dinner for the four of them that she was with child. At twenty two (no longer a child star but a full blown starlet), Annette was still considered a young mother, and Remus at twenty five, was a young father. But when Noah was born, age and status no longer mattered.
Noah grew up healthy and happy, until he was about four years old. There was a car accident involving his parents, paparazzi and an oncoming car. Annette and Noah escaped with only minor injuries, while Remus and one of the paparazzi suffered ones that were fatal. Things were not the same for a long while after Remus was put to rest, Annette went out less and less and spent more time at home, teaching her son all of the values his father favored. As a result, Noah grew very close to his mother. They watched all her favorite movies, which became his favorite movies and she recounted all of her favorite memories so Noah knew just what fun she and Remus had before his death. Noah was not an unhappy boy, despite the events. She taught him the classics, of love and romance, and supported him when he started writing short stories about love and loyalty.
His mother cared for him well in the beautiful city that was Paris, until one morning she pulled back all the curtains and woke Noah up, telling him that she was going to do a movie. And for the first time in a long time, she seemed happy. From that point on, Noah became his mother's date to all of her fancy events, spending his free time (that time, of course, when he wasn't in school) writing those lovely stories. Often being the one to accompany his mother on long distant press events, Noah visited many places all over the globe. He was even given a private tutor and finished his schooling by the time he was sixteen. One trip, however, always stuck in Noah's mind. His mother was to star in an American movie. This meant four months in New York with his mother before returning to Paris to spend some time with his grandparents as they had requested he do. The time spent there was not enough, as Noah had fallen in love wih the city, especially the parts of it taken for granted by it's residents and parts that tourists neglected. Falling in love with gritty New York had been the very first time he'd truly had the feeling.
Of course he had to go back. At the age of twenty, Noah left his Paris home to start a life of his own, away from his mother and grandparents in New York. Opting to only take enough money from his mother to get himself started, Noah quickly found himself as a kitchen hand at a local resturaunt. He didn't even realize he was stepping right into the exact path his father had so many years ago.
[/size][/blockquote][/blockquote]Best Memory: Best memories were easy to come buy in the Lumiere household. But Noah's most fond memory was the morning his mother pulled back all the curtains, ordered breakfast and sat in bed with her then young son and told him she was going to star in a movie. Afterwards they lounged around and watched La Belle et la Bête, reciting all the lines along with the movie.
Worst Memory: Although he wasn't very old when his father died, Noah's worst memory is not of the accident but rather the unhappiness that it brought his mother. Though she tried her hardest, there was always something missing for her.
Top 3 life-changing moments:
• REMUS' DEATH - The death of Noah's father brought Noah and his mother closer together, and although the idea of not having a father is a horrible one, at least he had a loving mother.
• NEW YORK - When Annette made her decision to return to the movie business, Noah's quiet life took a turn for the loud and noisy. He was the son of a star, did he expect less? It also prompted his very first visit to the Big Apple and sparked his love affair with the city. From Paris to New York, Noah had definitely decided quickly which one he liked more.
• I'VE GOT A FEELING - A bubbling in the pit of his stomach, sitting next to his mother at a premiere, turned to something of a tingle followed by the strong urge to turn his head. Next to him sat a girl, maybe a few years older than he was with a white hot heat that only Noah seemed to notice radiating from her. Quickly he turned back to the screen only to see her again, playing a small role in the film he was watching, opposite a man twice her age. That was the first time he'd seen it happen, but from then on it had happened dozens and dozens of time, seemingly only when there were strong sexual feelings hanging around
Family relationships:
Remus Lumiere - Although deceased, Noah's father is a figure of high respect. There are no ill words spoken upon the "hardest worker" his mother and grandparents had ever met and he is constantly told that he reminds people of the man.
Annette Baudin - Noah's mother was his best friend, she taught him well and taught him the importance of love. Noah credits her for every good thing he's ever done.
Living alone had it’s perks and it also had it’s extreme downfalls. Who could have ever guessed that one might actually need food present in the building to survive off of? Christian had been on his own ever since he’d come to Casticova, yet his tendency to let the cupboards in his apartment become bare never let up. He never really was good at the entire living alone thing. In New York he’d still lived with his mother. She took care of everything and Christian generally never had to lift a finger. Certainly not when it came to grocery shopping anyway. That was just Christian being lazy though. Firm in the belief that he shouldn’t have to do anything he didn’t want to do, miniscule things like going to the marketplace to get fresh fruit seemed like a huge bother. Why should he go out of his way when he could easily find someone else to do it for him? It had to be that no one knew him better than himself and grocery shopping was best left to the person who would be consuming the items purchased. The only other reason would have to have been because Christian had nothing to do and he was hungry. A sad life it was. Although he could have easily punched a few numbers into his phone and spent the morning doing things more worth his time, actually not abusing someone with his ability and eating food he didn’t purchase from someone in a paper hat seemed an alternative he hadn’t taken in awhile.
So naturally, upon waking and dressing himself, Christian had left his apartment with a purpose and, for a change, that purpose was not work or sex. The marketplace was always busy but not the annoying kind of busy where one couldn’t get around to one’s destination. Rather, it was just full of life. This didn’t really bother Christian as it reminded him of his roots. New York was such a busy place. When he’d learned just what Casticova was and why he was being sent there he feared that it would be deserted and that there would be few others like him. He was mistaken, though, and happily so. He should have been happy because everyone was like him, but at the same time he was slightly bummed that everyone was like him and everyone knew what he could do. This thought didn’t bother to stay long in his head, though, as he examined fresh peaches he intended to purchase. The inspection was slight and quick and Christian reached into his pocket to pay the man at the fruit stand. His fingers brushed the fine chain of the necklace he’d purchased just the day before. A slight smirk played on his lips as he removed his hand from his pocket and paid before taking his peaches and continuing on his way.
Chris had been holding onto that particular piece of fine jewelry for quite some time now. He didn’t know why he continued to carry it in his pocket or why he felt the urge to buy it yesterday when the true owner asked for it’s return. He just had. There were certain things that Chris simply didn’t want to let go of and this was one of those things. It was unhealthy to clutch onto the past that tightly but as long as it was in private who would care? Emotions were not something Chris would own up to having so he did all his mourning for things he had lost in private. Had Maura really had the right to contact him over something she’d abandoned, or was that abandonment technically his fault? Refusing to dwell on it where any random passerby could peek into his mind, (and Christian was fully aware that there were plenty of bored people who came to the marketplace, or any crowded area for that matter, to do just that) the man continued walking.
There were often buskers in the marketplace or people who felt like the outdoors was a better place to play heir music. Obviously some of them didn’t know the difference between noise pollution and melody, as Christian often turned his nose up and walked past the boys in tight t-shirts with their guitar cases open, hopeful for a dime or two from a kind passerby. However, the tune Chris had heard as he walked away from the fruit stand was one that he actually recognized. Truth be told, he knew it quite well. The necklace in his pocket popped into his mind once again. Now was as good a time as any, right? Without much hesitation, Chris began his mission to locate the source of the music. It didn’t take long at all before he was there, the toes of his shoes coated in dust from his abrupt stop. He didn’t want to rush at her like an oncoming car into traffic. He was supposed to be calm and collected; utterly smooth. Once he spotted her, bent over her guitar and lost in what she loved to do, he knew he couldn’t just leave and continue with his initial chore. No, it was not in Christian’s nature to let things be. He had to pester and bug his way into the lives of people who did and did not want him. More so the latter than the former, if he was being honest. Previously urgent steps turned soft, curious, as he inched toward her, pretending to be just another person admiring her skill. One hand held the bag of fresh peaches, the other curled into his pocket to retrieve the necklace that had found the denim of his jeans home as of late.
“You’re getting better,” he finally spoke, a grin curling onto his face as if it were his intention to bother her, like coming here had been on purpose. “Token of appreciation?” As the latter half of his bothersome conversation spilled from his lips he lifted the necklace out of his pocket and dangled it in front of her.
“It’s all yours. No thanks necessary.”
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